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All about Eve quotes based on Themes Fame and success 1. “Waves of love”. (Eve). There is an extreme close up as the lighting is reflected in her eyes= star struck. This is contrasted to Margo’s throwaway remark applause is just “something to do till the aisles get less crowded”, shows Eve’s naivety and how shallow fame and approbation is; Eve is unaware how temporary applause really is? 2. “Just that alone is worth anything”. (Eve). Eve is yearning for fame. Fame will suffice for her, Eve is willing to sacrifice anything. 3. “I could watch you play that last scene a thousand times and cry every time”. (Eve Harrington). The reality is that Eve is crying because she is so close to achieving her dream, she is crying because it wasn’t here but it will be soon. 4. “I have no right to be anyone’s understudy, much less yours”. (Eve Harrington). Eve is pretending to feel guilty about being Margo’s understudy when in reality she is happy about this as it means she is closer to achieving her dream of stardom. 5. The violin music in All about eve is a repeated motif which sets a sombre and sentimental mood as she kindles the sympathy of her wide eyed audience and relates to the fact that she had “nowhere else to go” and “ no friends and family”. (Eve) 6. “I’m tired. I want to go home”. (Eve). Eve doesn’t want to be at the party with all of her fake friends. The reality is that Eve has no real friends, she’s sold her soul to the devil. 7. “One pretty good performance by an understudy, it will be forgotten tomorrow”. (Eve Harrington). The director emphasizes that fame is temporary and that there will always be an actress and actor that can replace them. The director highlights that Eve is replaceable. 8. “It might have been 15 years ago, it’s my part now”. (Eve Harrington). Eve is showing her true colours now. 9. “I had to be somebody”. (Eve Harrington). To Eve, fame is what defines her. She believes that fame is everything. Eve only values fame, she values fame above everything else. 10. “Your friendship with Margo- your deep, close friendship. What would happen to it, do you think, if she know the cheap trick you played on her for my benefit?”(Eve). Eve blackmails Karen, everything that Karen did was for Eve’s benefit. Karen fell right into Eve’s snare. 11. “How long… before people forgot what happened and trusted you again?... it would be so much easier for everyone concerned if I were to play Cora”. (Eve). Eve blackmails Karen, everything that Karen did was for Eve’s benefit. 12. “Tomorrow will bring me everything I’ve ever wanted. The end of an old road. The beginning of a new one… paved with… stars”. (Eve). Eve has finally got what she wanted, fame, but isn’t really worth all the sacrifices that she made? 13. “Margo is a great star. A true star”. (Addison). Margo is not described as a fading star. Eve is a light, not a star. Light is more fleeting and has less substance. The implication is that Eve should aspire to emulate Margo and Margo represents the epitome. 14. “no brighter light has ever dazzled the eye than Eve Harrington. Eve. But more about Eve later. All about eve later”. (Addison Dewitt) The film begins at the end or near the end as a flashback to reveal the details of how Eve ascends to British Theatre Royalty. Addison’s voiceover narration carrries an implicit promise of a narcisstic component within Eve which suggests that everything is probably not quite as it would seem as present based on the events in the past which will be revealed. 15. “In time she will be what you are”. (Addison). This foreshadows that Eve Harrington will take Margo Channing’s place as a big star.

16. “Miss Harrington knows all about it”. (Addison Dewitt). This shows Addison’s cynicism towards Eve’s actions and he knows that that the cycle is repeating. Eve will eventually be replaced by someone younger. The director emphasizes that fame in the theatre is temporary and highlights that very few make it to Hollywood, urging the reader to think is fame really worth the sacrifices that are made. 17. “My native habitat is the theatre. In it, I toil not, neither do I spin. I am a critic and commentator. I am essential to the theatre”. (Addison). Addison makes or breaks careers in the world of theatre. 18. “I have lived in the Theatre as a Trappist monk lives in his faith. I have no other world; no other life”. (Addison). Addison makes or breaks careers, the success of actors and actresses evolves around Addison. 19. “I see your career rising in the east like the sun”. (Addison). Miss Caswell tries to use her looks and sexual power to build a career and climb up the professional ladder. 20. “I think the time has come for you to shed some of your humility. It is just as false not to blow your horn at all as it is to blow too loudly”. (Addison). Eve’s humility make her vulnerable and compromised. This is caused because of Addison’s actions. 21. “The stars never die and never change”. (Lloyd). 22. “I was saying that the Theatre is nine-tenths hard work. Work done the hard way- by sweat, application and craftsmanship”. (Bill). Juxtaposition between Addison (cynicism: theatre= exclusive escapism) and Bill (theatre= an amalgamation of hard workers). 23. “It means concentration of ambition, desire and sacrifice such as no other profession demands”. (Bill). This foreshadows what Eve drops in order to achieve fame and success. This is what Eve wants. 24. “The things you drop on your way up”. (Margo). Femininity and its essential qualities as a woman must be disregarded in the pursuit of fame and ambition. 25. “Nor will Addison DeWitt and his poison pen!”. (Margo). DeWitt’s ability to make or break careers is a pivotal role in controlling the outcome of the film. 26. “I’m fed up with both the young lady and her qualities. Studying me as if I were a play or a blueprint, how I walk, talk, think, act, sleep…”. (Margo Channing). Margo begins to realise that Eve is trying to copy her and understands Eve’s true intentions that Eve is trying to become Margo. 27. “Lloyd Richards, you are not to consider giving that contemptible little worm the part of “Cora”. (Karen). Karen begins to realize what Eve is doing and what her plan is. 28. Decisions and choices 1. “Winconsin, that is”. (Eve Harrington). Evidence that Eve is making up the story and it seems as though she is making up the story on the spot. 2. “It got to a point where I couldn’t tell the unreal from the real”. (Eve Harrington) 3. “I’ll never forget you for making it possible” (Eve Harrington). 4. When asked why she has seen every play, she admits that she’d “have no where else to go” if she didn’t watch them. These self deprecating actions evoke feelings of guilt and sympathy from other characters. She tells them of her families poverty, of her “dead husband” and of her difficult time in the brewery. (Eve) 5. “I was alone, I couldn’t go back without Eddy.” (Eve). Eve is making this story up, trying to implement herself into Margo’s world. 6. Eve deceives Karen into believing that she feels guilty about being Margo’s understudy. “Oh no, I couldn’t possibly”. (Eve)

7. “I have no right to be anyone’s understudy, much less yours”. (Eve Harrington). Eve is pretending to feel guilty about being Margo’s understudy when in reality she is happy about this as it means she is closer to achieving her dream of stardom. 8. The violin music in All about eve is a repeated motif which sets a sombre and sentimental mood as she kindles the sympathy of her wide eyed audience and relates to the fact that she had “nowhere else to go” and “ no friends and family”. (Eve) 9. “I’m about to go into the shower, I won’t be able to hear you”. (Eve). Eve deliberately comes out with only a towel to stop Addison’s probing. She hasn’t thought of a surname and she is trying to prevent Addison and anyone knowing from the truth behind her story. 10. “It might have been 15 years ago, it’s my part now”. (Eve Harrington). Eve is showing her true colours now. 11. “I would do much more for a part that good”. (Eve Harrington). Eve does not seem to care about the destruction that she has inflicted on everyone. Eve suggests that she would do something more destructive for her dream as a star. The low angle shot shows Karen’s helplessness and vulnerability. Eve’s behaviour is psychopathic. 12. “I had to be somebody”. (Eve Harrington). To Eve, fame is what defines her. She believes that fame is everything. Eve only values fame, she values fame above everything else. 13. “Your friendship with Margo- your deep, close friendship. What would happen to it, do you think, if she know the cheap trick you played on her for my benefit?”(Eve). Eve blackmails Karen, everything that Karen did was for Eve’s benefit. Karen fell right into Eve’s snare. 14. “How long… before people forgot what happened and trusted you again?... it would be so much easier for everyone concerned if I were to play Cora”. (Eve). Eve blackmails Karen, everything that Karen did was for Eve’s benefit. 15. “Tomorrow will bring me everything I’ve ever wanted. The end of an old road. The beginning of a new one… paved with… stars”. (Eve). Eve has finally got what she wanted, fame, but isn’t really worth all the sacrifices that she made? 16. “Champion to Champion”. (Eve). Eve and Addison Dewitt are similar in a way in which they both do not care about the pain that they have inflicted on others and are both psychopaths. 17. “What she eats”. (Addison). This is an allusion to Eve (from Adam and Eve) eating the banned apple from the tree of knowledge implication that Eve’s unbridled ambition renders her vulnerable. 18. “no brighter light has ever dazzled the eye than Eve Harrington. Eve. But more about Eve later. All about eve later”. (Addison Dewitt) The film begins at the end or near the end as a flashback to reveal the details of how Eve ascends to British Theatre Royalty. Addison’s voiceover narration carrries an implicit promise of a narcisstic component within Eve which suggests that everything is probably not quite as it would seem as present based on the events in the past which will be revealed. 19. “I have lived in the Theatre as a Trappist monk lives in his faith. I have no other world; no other life”. (Addison). Addison makes or breaks careers, the success of actors and actresses evolves around Addison. 20. “We all come into this world with our little egos, equipped with individual horns. Now if we don’t blow them, who else will?”. (Addison). 21. “I think the time has come for you to shed some of your humility. It is just as false not to blow your horn at all as it is to blow too loudly”. (Addison). Eve’s humility make her vulnerable and compromised. This is caused because of Addison’s actions. 22. “There never was and there never will be another like you”. (Addison). This is ironic as Phoebe at the end of the film is trying to achieve fame the way Eve achieved fame.

23. “San Francisco has no Shubert Theatre. You’ve never been to San Francisco! That was a stupid lie, easy to expose, not worthy of you”. (Addison). Addison Dewitt knows that Eve lied and she is now exposed. Eve must belong to Addison to prevent him from telling the truth about her past and exploit her acting career, which she holds above everything else. 24. “The things you drop on your way up”. (Margo). Femininity and its essential qualities as a woman must be disregarded in the pursuit of fame and ambition. 25. “Nor will Addison DeWitt and his poison pen!”. (Margo). DeWitt’s ability to make or break careers is a pivotal role in controlling the outcome of the film. 26. “What do you all take me for- Little Nell from the Country? Been my understudy for over a week without my knowing it, carefully hidden no doubt”. (Margo). Margo feels as though she is being plotted against. Everyone else is being snared into Eve’s web, her evil plan. 27. Trust, betrayal and manipulation 1. “It got to a point where I couldn’t tell the unreal from the real”. (Eve Harrington) 2. “I’ll never forget you for making it possible” (Eve Harrington). 3. When asked why she has seen every play, she admits that she’d “have no where else to go” if she didn’t watch them. These self deprecating actions evoke feelings of guilt and sympathy from other characters. She tells them of her families poverty, of her “dead husband” and of her difficult time in the brewery. (Eve) 4. “I was alone, I couldn’t go back without Eddy.” (Eve). Eve is making this story up, trying to implement herself into Margo’s world. 5. Eve deceives Karen into believing that she feels guilty about being Margo’s understudy. “Oh no, I couldn’t possibly”. (Eve) 6. “I’m tired. I want to go home”. (Eve). Eve doesn’t want to be at the party with all of her fake friends. The reality is that Eve has no real friends, she’s sold her soul to the devil. 7. “It might have been 15 years ago, it’s my part now”. (Eve Harrington). Eve is showing her true colours now. 8. “I would do much more for a part that good”. (Eve Harrington). Eve does not seem to care about the destruction that she has inflicted on everyone. Eve suggests that she would do something more destructive for her dream as a star. The low angle shot shows Karen’s helplessness and vulnerability. Eve’s behaviour is psychopathic. 9. “Your friendship with Margo- your deep, close friendship. What would happen to it, do you think, if she know the cheap trick you played on her for my benefit?”(Eve). Eve blackmails Karen, everything that Karen did was for Eve’s benefit. Karen fell right into Eve’s snare. 10. “How long… before people forgot what happened and trusted you again?... it would be so much easier for everyone concerned if I were to play Cora”. (Eve). Eve blackmails Karen, everything that Karen did was for Eve’s benefit. 11. “I refer to your new and unpregnant understudy, Eve Harrington”. (Addison). Eve become Margo’s understudy behind Margo’s back, she did this through Karen. This shows how deceptive Eve truly is and the lengths that Eve went to achieve fame and success. 12. “gang of backward children you’ve been playing tricks on”. (Addison). Implication that Addison is superior to them. He cannot be tricked unlike Margo, Bill, Karen and Lloyd. 13. “Miss Harrington knows all about it”. (Addison Dewitt). This shows Addison’s cynicism towards Eve’s actions and he knows that that the cycle is repeating. Eve will eventually be replaced by someone younger. The director emphasizes that fame in the theatre is temporary and highlights that very few make it to Hollywood, urging the reader to think is fame really worth the sacrifices that are made.

14. “The mark of a true killer”. (Addison Dewitt). Addison knows what Eve’s true intentions are. In contrast to this, both Addison and Eve have similar traits in which they are both rejected from society and share the same “inability to be loved or to love”. 15. “I’m Addison Dewitt, nobody’s fool, least of all not yours”. (Addison) Addison knows that Eve’s real plan, what her real intentions were. 16. “After tonight, you will belong to me”. (Addison). Addison blackmails Eve, by implicating that she must belong to Addison otherwise he will reveal the truth. The director emphasizes how the male always benefits from blackmailing and is seen to be more superior, making the female feel compromised and vulnerable. 17. “You’re an improbable person, Eve, and so am I. We have that in common. Also a contempt for humanity, an inability to be loved, insatiable ambition and talent. We deserve each other”. (Addison). Addison and Eve are along, they are rejects from their society, they are both psychopaths. 18. “I think the time has come for you to shed some of your humility. It is just as false not to blow your horn at all as it is to blow too loudly”. (Addison). Eve’s humility make her vulnerable and compromised. This is caused because of Addison’s actions. 19. “It’s important right now that we talk- killer to killer- with me, you’re no champion. You’re stepping way up in class”. (Addison) 20. “San Francisco has no Shubert Theatre. You’ve never been to San Francisco! That was a stupid lie, easy to expose, not worthy of you”. (Addison). Addison Dewitt knows that Eve lied and she is now exposed. Eve must belong to Addison to prevent him from telling the truth about her past and exploit her acting career, which she holds above everything else. 21. “You know, she probably means well after all”. (Lloyd). She encapsulates the easily manipulated Lloyd and the rose tinted glasses through which he sees the world. Lloyd is still clearly under the influence of Eve. 22. “You’ve been talking to that venomous fishwife, Addison DeWitt”. (Lloyd). Addison is seen as a serpent or a snake. 23. “I like that girl, the quality of quiet graciousness”. (Lloyd). Lloyd is under Eve’s spell and manipulation. 24. “It’s Addison from start to finish. It drips with his brand of venom. Taking advantage of a kid like that, twisting her words, making her say what he wanted her to say.” (Lloyd). 25. “The atmosphere is very Macbeth-ish.. what has, or is about to happen”. (Lloyd). This foreshadows Eve’s betrayal and deception. 26. “Eve Harrington has never by word, look, thought or suggestion indicated anything to me but her admiration for you and her happiness in being in love”. (Bill). This shows Bill’s oblivion to Eve’s true intentions. 27. “It means concentration of ambition, desire and sacrifice such as no other profession demands”. (Bill). This foreshadows what Eve drops in order to achieve fame and success. This is what Eve wants. 28. “How can you take offense at a kid trying in every way to be much like her ideal as possible?”. (Bill). Bill is naïve and oblivious of Eve’s true intentions at this point. 29. “Eve Harrington has never by a word, look, or a suggestion indicated anything to me but her adoration for you and our happiness of being in love”. (Bill). Bill is oblivious of Eve’s true intentions. 30. “I’m in love with Margo… And I’m as curious as the next man.. The only thing- what I go after, I want to go after. I don’t want it to come after me. (Bill). Bill is loyal and devoted to Margo. He finally realizes what Eve is truly up to and doesn’t want anything to do with her.

31. “So young and so fair”. (Margo Channing). This is ironic as Eve ends up betraying Margo and moves up to Hollywood through deception. 32. “What about her teeth? What about her fangs”. (Margo). Margo finally sees Eve for who she is- a conniving serpent. 33. “Feverish little brain waiting there” (Margo). This gives the implication that she’s been poisoned/corrupted or that she is poison. 34. “Because she’s left good behind- the four of us together like this, it’s Eve’s fault- I forgive her”. (Margo). Eve’s actions though cruel, cunning and calculating yield a result that Eve was unable to anticipate, they drew her victims closer together and engendered a change in the characters that only furthered their friendship and closeness. 35. “She is a louse””(Margo). A louse is a pest that causes insidious harm; a parasite that wreaks havoc on those it attaches itself to. Quite interestingly, this bestial metaphor showcases Eve’s degradation. Mite that bite you under the skin, adequately describes Eve’s subversiveness and insidious nature. 36. “Lloyd Richards, you are not to consider giving that contemptible little worm the part of “Cora”. (Karen). Karen begins to realize what Eve is doing and what her plan is. 37. “It strikes me that Eve’s disloyalty and ingratitude must be contagious”. (Karen) 38. “I’ve never know that Bill and Lloyd would fight so often, and always some business for Eve”. (Karen). Eve has purposely caused conflict between Bill and Lloyd. Eve is not remorseful for her actions. She doesn’t seem to care about the pain that she has inflicted on others, only cares about her ambition as a star. 39. Women and work 1. “Footsteps on the Ceiling”. (Eve). This is an allusion to “The Glass Ceiling”, which refers to the principle that women can see where they want to go in life but can’t reach there because of the gender limitations of women, they are constrained by their feminity and their ambition inhibited and stagnation. 2. “you realise and you agree how completely you belong to me?” (Addison). The director portrays how men control women in this society and how women are essentially puppets to men. Men are manipulative of women and women are dependent on men for...